My morning routine:
Café cubano's quieter cousin, café con leche should be called leche con café for it really is milk with coffee. A steaming cup of this sweet, comforting potion served with toasted bread or cuban crackers is a typical Cuban breakfast.
Heat milk in a pot. Café con leche is usually made with whole milk, or a mixture of whole and evaporated milk, but any milk will do - dare I say, even soy (Sorry Abuelita!).
Pour the hot milk in a mug, filling it almost to the top. Throw in a tacita of café cubano and stir. Sit back, pop in the Buena Vista Social Club CD and feel the warm Gulf breeze!
Ticomaya wrote:I like coffee.
I like coffee hot.
I like coffee warm.
I like coffee cool.
I like coffee iced.
I like frozen coffee.
I like coffee black.
I like coffee with skim milk.
I like coffee with 2% milk.
I like coffee with whole milk.
I like coffee with half and half.
I like coffee with sugar.
I like coffee with honey.
I like coffee with artificial sweetener.
I like coffee with whipped cream on top.
I like coffee with a shot of hazelnut syrup.
I like coffee with cinnamon swirled in the grounds.
I like coffee pre-ground.
I like coffee ground at the store.
I like coffee freshly ground at home.
I like coffee lightly roasted.
I like coffee medium roasted.
I like coffee dark roasted.
I like coffee roasted black for espresso.
I like coffee from South America.
I like coffee from Africa.
I like coffee from Jamaica.
I like coffee from Hawaii.
I like coffee that is blended.
I like flavored coffee.
I like coffee made by an automatic drip machine.
I like coffee made by an espresso machine
I like coffee made using a French press.
I like coffee made using a Vietnamese press.
I like coffee made by a cold-filtration process, stored in the fridge, and microwaved later.
I like espresso.
I like lattes.
I like cappuccino.
I like Americano.
I like cafe au lait.
I like coffee left over from the day before, heated up or over ice, but in this case it must be heavily sweetened, and preferably with milk.
I also like combinations of the above.
Ohhh, Tico! You are a man after my own wanting, coffee loving heart!
Between you and Stilly, I just swoon!
I agree with Tico and Stilly too.
My favorite coffee ever was the iced coffee at the middle caffe in Vasari's loggia facing Piazza Grande in Arezzo -
a good martini glass, ice cold espresso on the bottom, a layer of crema foam imbedded with ice chips on top of that, and resting on the crema foam, a thin coating of turbinado sugar.
My second favorite was a macchiato, but I can't remember where I was at the time. All very dependent on the richness and freshness of the coffee and skill of the barista or me making the coffee and probably the quality of the macchina. Although ... I do like espresso made with the ordinary stovetop thing the name of which I forget right this minute.
Wow... Tico, you're the first person I've heard of who also likes coffee with honey. Me, too. Me, too.
I am known for my very strong coffee habits. I brew ten cups of fresh-ground coffee every morning and send most of it off with Mr.P., leaving about three cups for myself which I keep hot in a pre-warmed thermos. Mr.P likes his coffee with half and half -- which I don't understand. (Gag!) My friends all know I cannot stand large cups for coffee as I only like it when it is very hot, and so they have given me a large collection of small cups -- some only hold a couple of ounces. I usually drink my coffee black, though sometimes I'll add honey if I'm feeling a little off. I'll add a few grains of fructose if the coffee beans don't seem so good.
When I'm out and about I order short hot mochas with no whipped cream in the winter and tall iced lattes (no sugar) in the summer.
I will drink reheated coffee when I'm desperate, but I have to put cocoa in it and even with the chocolate I'm not happy.
I adore coffee. Usually I will have it black and strong.
I like it every-which-way on different occasions.
I don't like instant coffee though. That is for desperate times!
Most winters; myself and a friend of mine will take a winter-camping-trip. Of course, we bring coffee and tea.
One time we ran out. I was having a good time, but the one thing I kept dreaming about was getting to a cafe and having a proper cup of coffee! Forget about the soft bed or my boyfriend: I wanted coffee!
:wink:
while i'm not a big coffee drinker (one to two cups a day), i prefer it to be tchibo-coffee with plenty of sugar and cream/evaporated milk. hbg
Thanks guys. I like one day old coffee too *giggles* Oh my.
Lady J - the A2K coffee slut! Who would have thought???!!?? :wink:
panzade wrote:My morning routine:
Café cubano's quieter cousin, café con leche should be called leche con café for it really is milk with coffee. A steaming cup of this sweet, comforting potion served with toasted bread or cuban crackers is a typical Cuban breakfast.
Heat milk in a pot. Café con leche is usually made with whole milk, or a mixture of whole and evaporated milk, but any milk will do - dare I say, even soy (Sorry Abuelita!).
Pour the hot milk in a mug, filling it almost to the top. Throw in a tacita of café cubano and stir. Sit back, pop in the Buena Vista Social Club CD and feel the warm Gulf breeze!
Add some cheese to that, and I will meet you for breakfast :wink:
My father used to go out every morning, and get fresh warm baked italian bread. Fresh warm baked bread with melting butter inside, and a cup of coffee was a daily morning ritual. I also would drop a little butter in my coffee, and watch it melt. Mmmm good
my good friend has a gourmet coffee shop, he buys the best coffee from all over the world. I like his Indian coffee based (not that I'm ridiculously biased towards India to begin with) - but I like it's smooth, non-acidic, yet rich flavor. I'll drink coffee anytime, in copious amounts. Love love love coffee.
St. Caffeine?
Did you know?
A Short History of St. Caffeine, the Father of Modern Youth Ministry
by Steve Case
Youth ministry has always been around. Some believe Jesus himself was a youth minister working with a group of teen disciples. Paul worked with a young man named Timothy. As long as there've been churches, there've been people who've been assigned to work with the young people.
Modern youth ministry as we know it began back in the late 1400s (modern youth ministry being defined as meeting with teens on Wednesdays and Sundays and showing up for early 15th century soccer games). The earliest known records indicate that a man called Matthias was the first to implement many of the practices we now call youth ministry.
Born in 1412 in Constantinople, Matthias discovered at an early age the joys of coffee. His father owned a fishing business, and the two would often spend long nights together out on the boat. Matthias would consume generous amounts of coffee and tell stories to keep his father and the other fishermen awake. (This began the long-held practice of youth talks for people who aren't really listening and always seem on the verge of falling asleep.)
It was in his 18th year that Matthias had his heavenly vision. God told Matthias to go and preach the gospel but to preach it really fast. Armed with a change of socks, a septem/ undecim travel mug and a large bag of coffee beans, Matthias set out and was soon able to preach sermons in four minutes flat. Noticing that his sermons tended to attract a younger crowd, he began to work teen slang into his sermons?-ceterum concitare, puer (Latin for "what up, dude").
In seminary Matthias was excused from many of the normal studies after his teachers learned of his desire to work with youth. Knowing that Matthias wasn't destined for "real" ministry, his teachers assigned him to "individual studies" (i.e. working to keeping "those kids" out of the sacramental wine).
Matthias began many of what we now consider to be common youth ministry practices?-such as taking teens to other towns without permission parchments, use of unapproved language while driving the fifteen-passenger horse and cart, and spilling coffee on the Fassbinder memorial dirt floor.
It was during a winter retreat in 1434 that Matthias left the coffee too close to the fire and burned his tongue. Matthias attempted to cool the drink down with fresh cream and snow. Since Matthias was unable to speak clearly because of his burned tongue, his students could only call the drink what they thought they'd heard their leader call it. " Frapp-a- Cino"?-which at the time was Latin for "Wow, this coffee is hot." Upon sharing this drink with the youth, his group was able to accomplish ten times as much work on the summer mission project and thus was considered to have performed his first miracle.
A second miracle that was reported but never documented stated that Matthias once took some dough, tomatoes, and goat cheese and fed more than 100 teenagers. This miracle wasn't considered during the canonization process, not because his faith was questioned, but because of the sheer amount that teenagers eat, the miracle was deemed improbable.
The people of the towns were so grateful for Matthias' chemicallyinduced enthusiasm and brevity that they kept him supplied with enough coffee beans and fresh cream to warrant him staying in each town for about 18 months. This attracted the attention of Pope Starbuck the Fourth who dispatched a group of cardinals to "calm the boy down." The cardinals met in committee and offered to help Matthias plan out his five-year goals and maintain his office hours, but the young priest refused.
Long respected by young people who eventually became older people, Matthias was eventually canonized Saint Caffeine after his death in 1512, after which he was promptly ignored. He was buried in 1514 when his corpse finally stopped vibrating.
Did he also invent donuts??
Thanks for the link, AE, but this thread is about COFFEE!
Yes Walter, and everything pertaining to Coffee.
What is so off topic about caffeine or the saint thereof? Angelique, whose thread this is, should presumably be able to move coffee to St. caffeine. Was this some error we don't know about?
... and additionally you can get coffee substitute made from barley malt
Or were you correcting Stillwater and his donuts?
